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Subject: RE: [xacml] 15-day Public Review for JSON Profile of XACML 3.0 v1.0 - ends June 12th


Hello,

 

I finally got a chance to review this draft. I uploaded my annotated copy to the repository here.

 

There are two main issues that I noticed:

 

- Section 4.2.3 says that there is an option to encode XML contents as Base64 or escaped XML but there is no additional property to indicate what encoding has been used. If this is meant to be left to inference, it should be stated and preferably the inference mechanism should be described.

 

- Section 6 prescribes using “application/json” while later on “application/xacml+json” is prescribed. Is this a typo or is it intended (perhaps because the communication is between XACML PEP and PDP)?

 

Also I suggest including the XACML XML equivalent of the examples in Section 8.

 

There are also various editorial issues:

- Font discrepancy: the use of fonts for the XML elements and JSON property names is not consistent throughout the document.

- I think tables should be captioned and referenced rather than being inline although I am not sure if OASIS has any rules about this.

- Referencing style to sections is not consistent; sometimes only a number is given, sometimes number is given with “section” and sometimes the entire title is included. I think using “Section” and number is more readable but even if another style is used it should be followed consistently.

 

 

Regards,

Mohammad Jafari, Ph.D.

Security Architect, Edmond Scientific Company

 

 

 

 

From: xacml@lists.oasis-open.org [mailto:xacml@lists.oasis-open.org] On Behalf Of Chet Ensign
Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2014 7:42 AM
To: tc-announce@lists.oasis-open.org; members@lists.oasis-open.org; xacml@lists.oasis-open.org; xacml-comment@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: [xacml] 15-day Public Review for JSON Profile of XACML 3.0 v1.0 - ends June 12th

 

OASIS members, 

 

The OASIS eXtensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML) TC members [1] have produced an updated Committee Specification Draft (CSD) and submitted this specification for 15-day public review:

 

JSON Profile of XACML 3.0 Version 1.0

Committee Specification Draft 03 / Public Review Draft 03

15 May 2014

 

With these releases we are testing a convenience option for submitting comments to the Technical Committee. Please see the details under ‘Public Review Period’ below.

 

Specification Overview:

 

The aim of this profile is to propose a standardized interface between a policy enforcement point and a policy decision point using JSON. The decision request and response structure is specified in the core XACML specification. This profile leverages it. 

 

This document was previously titled “Request / Response Interface based on JSON and HTTP for XACML 3.0 Version 1.0.” 

 

TC Description: 

 

The XACML Technical Committee defines a core XML schema for representing authorization and entitlement policies. 

 

Public Review Period:

 

The public review starts 29 May 2014 at 00:00 GMT and ends 12 June 2014 at 23:59 GMT. The specification was previously submitted for public review [2]. This 15-day review is limited in scope to changes made from the previous review. Changes are highlighted in the diff-marked PDF file [3]. 

 

This is an open invitation to comment. OASIS solicits feedback from potential users, developers and others, whether OASIS members or not, for the sake of improving the interoperability and quality of its technical work.

 

With this public review, we are testing a new convenience feature for sending comments to the Technical Committee. The file:

 

 

contains the HTML version of the draft with a “[comment?]” link next to each section heading. Clicking on this link will launch your email application and begin a message to xacml-comment@lists.oasis-open.org with the specific section number and title in the subject line. (For example, “Public review comment for xacml-json-http-v1.0-csprd03: 1.1 References”) Simply enter your comment and click send.

 

You must be subscribed to the xacml-comment@lists.oasis-open.org mailing list in order to send your comments. Instructions on how to subscribe can be found at https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/comments/index.php?wg_abbrev=xacml.

 

Note that the Table of Contents doesn’t work in this version and other internal document links may not work in these files. That is one of the items we need fix before making this capability more broadly available. Please feel free to let us know if you find this feature helpful. We plan to refine it and make it a part of our normal public review process.

 

URIs:

The prose specification document and related files are available here:

 

Editable source (Authoritative):

 

HTML: 

 

PDF:

 

ZIP distribution files (complete):

 

For your convenience, OASIS provides a complete package of the prose specification and related files in a ZIP distribution file. You can download the ZIP file here:

 

 

Additional information about the specification and the OASIS eXtensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML) TC may be found at the TC's public home page located at:

 

 

Comments may be submitted to the TC by any person through the use of the OASIS TC Comment Facility which can be accessed via the button labeled "Send A Comment" at the top of the TC public home page, or directly at:

 

 

Feedback submitted by TC non-members for this work and for other work of this TC is publicly archived and can be viewed at:

 

 

All comments submitted to OASIS are subject to the OASIS Feedback License, which ensures that the feedback you provide carries the same obligations at least as the obligations of the TC members. In connection with this public review of “JSON Profile of XACML 3.0 Version 1.0,” we call your attention to the OASIS IPR Policy [4] applicable especially [5] to the work of this technical committee. All members of the TC should be familiar with this document, which may create obligations regarding the disclosure and availability of a member's patent, copyright, trademark and license rights that read on an approved OASIS specification. 

 

OASIS invites any persons who know of any such claims to disclose these if they may be essential to the implementation of the above specification, so that notice of them may be posted to the notice page for this TC's work.

 

========== Additional references:

 

[1] OASIS eXtensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML) TC

 

[2] Previous public reviews: 

 

 

 

 

 

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